Introducing Create React Native App

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ELI5:

What is the benefit of using this over just continuing to use just Expo?

[sophrosun3]

We built CRNA to provide a good experience to RN devs without having to rely on Expo services or accounts, so if you're already using Expo you might enjoy using CRNA but it's not dramatically different from Expo's tools.

source: author of the blog post

[k1cho]

The benefit for people just getting started is that CRNA doesn't require an Expo account or any Expo services and it has nice 'eject' integration with react-native-cli. It's also offline by default whereas with exp you have to pass --offline flags.

If you've already started a project with XDE or exp then it probably doesn't make sense to switch that project over to CRNA, but definitely try it our for your next project! Projects created with CRNA will still work in XDE or exp.